Changing classes

[Trieah]

Gggggrrrrrrrrrrr! I can't get any of the stupid NPCs to talk to me. All I can get out of them is a nice little hand wave. While that sure is nice and friendly of them, I'd rather they actually talked to me so I can get what I need from them. I've tried everything I can think of to try and reset them so they'll work properly but it's all been a no go, including relogging.

I've run into this problem several times in the past, it took a while but I could eventually get them to finally open up the dialog box so I could take a quest or change classes as needed. But now it seems I just can't get any NPCs to open up the dialog box at all. Is there a way to get around?

[Deth]

Check your setting to see if you have dialog set to go to a new chat window or an existing one. I think you want it to a new window. I want to say it has something to do with that as that was I have seen in the past suggested to fix it. Basically if you get the wave the text is going somewhere that your not seeing. If it is set to a new window maybe the window is appearing behind another text box.

[Trieah]

I checked and all new tells are being sent to a new window. The window just doesn't want to open up for some reason.

[Raptress]

Have you made sure that tells are actually checked off on that long list of text types with check boxes next to them?

[LOVWYRM]

That is bad! It stopped me once playing for 6 month (no help from EII).
Now a mate has the same prob-I told him to write a ticket..

[Steelclaw]

Try renaming the file UICommunicationPrefs.def in your character's prefs directory.
(prefs\<shard>_<character>\UICommunicationPrefs.de f)
Rename it to any file that doesn't exist already. I suggest changing ".def" to ".de_".

You'll end up having to re-join all your channels when you log in.

If this doesn't address the problem, you can always rename the file back.

[C`gan]

I've seen this happen before. Try this. In your chat window, click on the + button for a new tab. In the System Channels list, uncheck all boxes then check Tell. Hit ok. That creates a specific tell-only tab. Now, greet the NPC again.